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Top runner returns to team
Summer events leave Gruber without rest
By Ryan Malashock
sports@kansan.com
Kansan Swordwriter
The men's cross country team will welcome back its top runner from last year, senior Charlie Gruber, Saturday at the Oklahoma State University Jamboree in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Coaches Stanley Redwine and Doug Clark, along with Gruber, decided before Kansas' first meet that Gruber would continue training but not participate in the first two meets.
Gruber had not been hampered by any single injury, but he had participated in so many summer events that his body needed resting.
Gruber said that he knew his body needed a break, but that he still missed being in competition.
"I trained so hard all summer that I needed to take some time off," Gruber
said. "I honestly could have raced, but I wanted to focus on training. The guys have done well, and it hasn't big that big of a deal. I just wanted to continue training and get stronger."
Gruber concluded his last spring with the conference and national championships. He then participated this summer in several meets around the Midwest, a U.S. Olympic Development meet in Maine and the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento, Calif.
Gruber concluded his track season late
Clark said that Gruber stressed concern at the start of the season regarding the condition of his body. Clark also said that Gruber's return would be a much needed boost for the team's
needed boost for the men's team
Gruber: dick's participate in the first two meets of the season
"Charlie returning is going to be a huge difference for our team," Clark said. "Having a senior like Charlie coming back will make our top five very strong."
Clark said that the rest of the team had
done well in Gruber's absence, but it still was ready for his return.
"Our top five should all be able to pack together this Saturday," Clark said.
"(Freshman) Brian Raggett has been doing a great job filling in our fifth spot, but Charlie's return should boost us."
Gruber is looking to build from the strong times he finished with last season. He was the highest-placing Jayhawk at last season's Big 12 Championships and also placed 47th at the District V Regionals.
Gruber's expectations for the Oklahoma State Jamboree' range from running a hard race to helping his teammates run harder. He said he just wanted to prove to himself that he was back in competitive shape.
"I think that I'll be able to run an entire 8K race and not just run and hold on," Gruber said. "I've been going through tough workouts, and I
just want to race extremely hard and be a total Kansas Javhawk,"
The men's cross country team hopes that this total Kansas Jayhawk will return on Saturday with a bang.
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New guard hopes to lead 'Hawks
By Zac Hunter sports@kansan.com Kansan sportstwitter
The Kansas women's basketball team is setting up for a changing of the guard at the end of the season.
National Team. She also was named the most valuable player of the Junior National Championship in 1997 and 1998.
For the past three seasons senior guard Jennifer Jackson has basically run the show for the Jayhawks, and she will assume that role again this season.
At the end of the season, however, Kansas is faced with the question of who will replace Jackson when she graduates. Kansas coach Marian Washington said the answer might come in the form of a 5-foot-7 freshman guard from Sweden.
Championship in 1957 and 1963
Washington said that Mengu
While playing in Sweden last season, Leila Menguc averaged 20 points per game and was a member of the Swedish Junior
was recruited because of a lack of depth at both guard spots, as well as the fact that injury problems have hampered Kansas' guards in the past.
Washington said she saw several aspects of Menguc's game that she liked, including her ability to make
quick and smart decisions.
is not in question, she has had to deal with the change of scenery at Kansas.
"She's very smart in seeing the whole floor," Washington said.
That change of scenery caused fits for former freshman
But while Menguc's eyesight
guard Shanell Law, who returned to California after just a few weeks on campus because she missed home. With Menguc's distance from home being many times greater, it would be natural to assume that she shared some of Law's feelings.
That is not the case, however. Menguc said she already had lived by herself for two years so she could play basketball for her club team.
"I had to move from Stockholm to another city to be able to play and go to school at the same time because I had to travel so much." Menguc said. Menguc said, that she would
have to adjust, however, to how fast the college game was played, noting that the speed in Sweden was much slower.
"Back home, they were so old they didn't run very much," she said.
Speeding up her play is an adjustment that Menguc said she was looking forward to because she would much rather play an up-tempo style than a ball-control game.
Menguc said that she would
While she will have to tweak her game a little to fit in with the Kansas style of basketball, there is one aspect of Swedish basketball that she wants to keep — her attitude.
Menguc said players in Sweden were known for keeping a level head during games, and that is something she wants to retain this season for the Jayhawks.
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Players, fans want games to be shown on television
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games on television. Frederick said three games were considered into the program's yearly budget (each Big 12 team can play up to six televised games). So far, none have been picked up. He said he remained confident that at least three or four would be.
The problem is numbers that the University cannot control.
But it's not as if the Big 12 does not have plenty of opportunities for broadcasts. The conference will appear at least 32 times (at most 36) on ABC and 44 times on Fox.
Most of the state of Kansas does not receive Fox Sports Net, so the network is less inclined to show teams from the area.
"Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State are really at a disadvantage," Frederick said.
And, Frederick notes, there are as many television sets in Texas as there are in the rest of the conference, so those schools automatically become more attractive to the networks.
Another problem exists to get Kansas on television. If the Jayhawks aren't going to be good, then their opponent better be. For example, the Kansas-Nebraska game Nov. 4 is much more likely to get broadcasted if the Cornhuskers are contending for a national title. Of course, if Nebraska's that good, it becomes exponentially more difficult for Kansas to win.
The line of importance of getting on television becomes even narrower if Kansas is put on television for a home game.
The Jayhawks will be inclined to be heard on radio or seen on the eminent ticker. Even Nesmith, who has received national acclaim for his idea of the Butcher Shop, figures that a larger audience is no big deal and he's in no hurry to get extra time on the tube.
"I feel great about our chances," Nesmith said. "It doesn't matter if we're on TV or not. We have to go down there and prove we can win on the road."
As Kansas brings a miserable recent road history to No. 14 Oklahoma, the chance of Kansas keeping the game's score close remains to be seen.
But not on television.
- Edited by Kimberly Thompson